Man, I gotta rant. It is a major problem to use your headphones via usbc and I really struggle to find a satisfying solution. I have some nice pair of Sennheiser headphones and I intend to use them.
Last year I got myself an S21FE, because I needed more horsepower to play some demanding games. I was initially super wary about the lack of the port, but there are adapters right? Surely you can just get one and it's like nothing ever changed, right? It's just a fucking adapter bro
NO.
Amazon is flooded with braided, electronic waste. Most adapters will get you lots of popping and drop outs. They belong straight in the trash.
Samsung themselves have stopped selling theirs, so it's hard to find something from a reliable brand. After getting burned by noname products, I found someone selling hundreds of brand new Samsung adapters on ebay. It was very obviously not brand new when I received it, but it was legit packaging that they had stitched back together and it actually did the job.
Ok but I sometimes I gotta charge my phone too, now what?
There's adapters with both usbc and aux connectors -> trash
There's usbc splitters though!
So I plug my usbc charger and my headphone with headphone adapter into the splitter. It's getting a little unwieldy, but it works.
One of the cables was marked with a headphone symbol, the other with a lightning bolt. For the longest time I played along and plugged them in according to these runes. One day I wondered, what if...what if I plugged them in the other way
...
Something in the headphone adapter got cooked. All of a sudden it started getting hot really fast when I used it. Broken. I had destroyed my adapter by plugging it into the wrong usbc port. Are you for real
I then got one from Apple. Can you believe they're still selling theirs despite being the ones that started all this, in contrast to the company that first mocked them for it before following suit? Ironic
People complained about the volume of these being too low on Android, and while it is definitely lower, these people must be either deaf or drive cheap shit. It works, it's fine. But still, it is not perfect. I get slight popping in games (just like with the previous one, it wasn't perfect either). I can live with that, but you have to wonder why I gotta settle for less.
But now, my splitter is offcially broken as well. It's probably also cheap garbage hidden beneath the nicely braided cables. Gotta order some more cheap garbage now.
I like Samsung phones, I've never had a smartphone from another company. But audio over usbc appears to be an unsolved problem, and we have to deal with it just so they can sell their stupid bUdS. Their product lineup is really fucked up when buying the more expensive models gets you LESS features and versatility.
Even while all the adapters still worked, I found myself using my old phone a lot for youtube and such, because it was just that much more convenient and gave perfect sound quality. It's ridiculous.
Legit contemplating stepping down again from the S class or switching to a different brand entirely next time I need a new phone.
Last year I got myself an S21FE, because I needed more horsepower to play some demanding games. I was initially super wary about the lack of the port, but there are adapters right? Surely you can just get one and it's like nothing ever changed, right? It's just a fucking adapter bro
NO.
Amazon is flooded with braided, electronic waste. Most adapters will get you lots of popping and drop outs. They belong straight in the trash.
Samsung themselves have stopped selling theirs, so it's hard to find something from a reliable brand. After getting burned by noname products, I found someone selling hundreds of brand new Samsung adapters on ebay. It was very obviously not brand new when I received it, but it was legit packaging that they had stitched back together and it actually did the job.
Ok but I sometimes I gotta charge my phone too, now what?
There's adapters with both usbc and aux connectors -> trash
There's usbc splitters though!
So I plug my usbc charger and my headphone with headphone adapter into the splitter. It's getting a little unwieldy, but it works.
One of the cables was marked with a headphone symbol, the other with a lightning bolt. For the longest time I played along and plugged them in according to these runes. One day I wondered, what if...what if I plugged them in the other way
...
Something in the headphone adapter got cooked. All of a sudden it started getting hot really fast when I used it. Broken. I had destroyed my adapter by plugging it into the wrong usbc port. Are you for real
I then got one from Apple. Can you believe they're still selling theirs despite being the ones that started all this, in contrast to the company that first mocked them for it before following suit? Ironic
People complained about the volume of these being too low on Android, and while it is definitely lower, these people must be either deaf or drive cheap shit. It works, it's fine. But still, it is not perfect. I get slight popping in games (just like with the previous one, it wasn't perfect either). I can live with that, but you have to wonder why I gotta settle for less.
But now, my splitter is offcially broken as well. It's probably also cheap garbage hidden beneath the nicely braided cables. Gotta order some more cheap garbage now.
I like Samsung phones, I've never had a smartphone from another company. But audio over usbc appears to be an unsolved problem, and we have to deal with it just so they can sell their stupid bUdS. Their product lineup is really fucked up when buying the more expensive models gets you LESS features and versatility.
Even while all the adapters still worked, I found myself using my old phone a lot for youtube and such, because it was just that much more convenient and gave perfect sound quality. It's ridiculous.
Legit contemplating stepping down again from the S class or switching to a different brand entirely next time I need a new phone.
